UDP Broadcasting And The Brave New World Of IPv6

After recently working our way through UDP broadcasting and network subnetting all in the comfort zone of IPv4, it’s time to address the elephant in the room, the one wearing …read more

After Decades, NASA May Finally Replace Mars Relays

We’ve yet to find any definitive evidence that there’s biological life on present-day Mars, but to say it’s a dead planet isn’t exactly accurate. Since the first Viking lander touched …read more

2026 Hackaday Supercon: Announcing Our First Round Of Speakers

Supercon is the Ultimate Hardware Conference™ and you need to be there November 6-8 in Pasadena, California! Below is just the tip of the speakers’ iceberg, but if that’s not …read more

Raspberry Pi RAM Restrictions No Big Deal, Frankly

Hacking on Raspberry Pi board internals is one of my favourite topics. I know a bunch of obscure things about these cute little boards. Three years ago, I covered a …read more

DIY Router On X86 E-Waste: OpenWrt And OPNsense

In previous installments of this series we looked at how creating a DIY router using an e-waste-level PC has changed over the years, before attempting to boot OpenWrt for x86 …read more

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Self-Repairing Conductive Material From Liquid Metal

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By Ian Bos | September 26, 2026

PCB circuits are cool, but you know what is cooler? Terminator circuits that’s what! And what if the same material that makes Terminator circuits could also be used for smart …read more
A Pocket-Sized Digital Fish Tank

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By Zoe Skyforest | September 26, 2026

The problem with trying to make a fish tank fit in your pocket is that you’ll either end up with water everywhere or a bunch of dead fish. Perhaps that’s …read more
The Least Annoying Of All Evils

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By Elliot Williams | September 26, 2026

If you missed the hubbub this week, it was discovered that the Raspberry Pi Foundation added code in the firmware that locks the boot process up if non-original RAM chips …read more
You Can Make A Microprocessor That’s All Your Own

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By Jenny List | September 26, 2026

For a while now we’ve followed the slow progression of affordable integrated circuit fabrication, and through the likes of Tiny Tapeout we’ve seen impressive strides made. But they’re not the …read more
Easy Ways Sink A Hardware Startup

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By Donald Papp | September 26, 2026

[Ryan Walker] may have written up his observations a few years ago, but the lessons are just as relevant today as they were back then. He shares five easy ways …read more
Abusing SQL To Play DOOM

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By Bryan Cockfield | September 25, 2026

Most laypeople who encounter SQL think of it purely as a tool for managing large datasets. While that is certainly what it was designed for, SQL is still a programming …read more
The Low-Level Waste Dumps In The Atlantic Have Become Ecosystems

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By Maya Posch | September 25, 2026

Recently French and international researchers took a look at the state of the thousands of barrels of radioactive waste that were dumped into the Atlantic Ocean between 1950 and 1990, …read more

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